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Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

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Post by tosh » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one.

"bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle"

(and helped make + and - signs more popular)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde

see page 5:

https://sigapl.org/Articles/Language%20as%20an%20intellectua...

obligatory mention of Notation as a Tool of Thought

1979 Turing Award lecture by Ken Iverson

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

#32

Post by gste » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 6:34 AM UTC

Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word.

Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

#33

Post by piekvorst » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 10:29 AM UTC

farmerbb wrote: post #25

jzer0cool wrote: post #23

Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?

I understood that reference.

Not just a Futurama reference

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

#34

Post by JumpCrisscross » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

gste wrote: post #32

Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word. Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

This isn’t far off from Gödel’s work.

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

#35

Post by binary132 » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #3

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

This is exactly what first came to my mind as well. Pretty funny scenario to imagine

Re: Zenzizenzizenzic

#36

Post by aldanor » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

hun3 wrote: post #29

momoraul wrote: post #13

Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

(zenzi)³ I mean zenzi-cubic

Or cubizenzic?

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